I know that this may appear the naiveté born of entitlement that American’s can’t help but feel, based on such lucky circumstances that allow us to go through our lives never understanding the suffering of other places, other people.

However, there can be value in that suffering. In the choice to face the hardship, people can derive meaning…

If everything sucks, and if everything has been taken, and all that remains for any individual, is that choice: the choice to say I will continue unbowed and unbroken, for those people the choice to continue becomes everything.

That is not to say that I don’t see the new nihilism in America, in my friends, in my self. But I think that is wrong.

So, I will say it twice BUY IN … Choose to always see all life as precious, with all the arrogance that implies. Because who am I to deny those who are suffering that choice?